Sounding toy.



F. JUHASZ.

SOUNDING TOY.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 10, 1910.

993,380, Patented May 30,1911.

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FRANK J'UHASZ, OF WAUKEGAN, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF T0 HELENJUHASZ, OF WAUKEGAN, ILLINOIS.

SOUNDING TOY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 30, 1911.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK J UHASZ, a citizen of the United States,residing at Waukegan, in the county of Lake and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and use-' ful Improvements in Sounding Toys; and Ido hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the in vention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to sounding toys; and it consists in the novelconstruction and combination of the parts hereinafter fully describedand izlaimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of the toy showing the base insection. Fig. 2 is a cross-section taken on the line wm in Fig. l.

A is the base of the toy which is formed of a hollow box having a top Bwhich forms a sounding-board. A bar C is secured longitudinally in thebox under the soundingboard at its middle part, and this bar ispreferably formed of wood and its ends are secured to the ends of thebox.

D is an anvil 0r sounding-block provided with a flange d at its topwhich rests on the sounding-board. The main portion of the anvilprojects downwardly through a hole in the sounding-board, and it has aforked portion d at its lower end which straddles the middle part of thebar C and which is secured to the said bar.

E are two strikers preferably shaped roughly to conform with the outlineof the human frame, and having forked lower end portions or legs 6 whichstraddle the bar C and which are pivoted to the said bar by pins 6'.

F are holes in the sounding-board, ar ranged one at each end of theanvil, and the upper parts of the strikers project through these holes.The strikers E are provided with projecting arms or hammers f whichextend laterally over the anvil.

G is an operating-rod pivoted by pins 9 to the lower end portions of thelegs e, and which is slidable in a guide-hole g in one end of the box A.

The toy is operated by reciprocatin the projecting end portion of therod by hand. This causes the strikers to hammer alternately upon theanvil in imitation of two blacksmiths at work, and in imitation of thesound commonly heard in a blacksmiths shop.

That I claim is:

In a sounding toy, the combination, with a supporting sounding-boxprovided with a hole in one of its ends and having at its top asounding-board provided with holes, of a bar secured to the ends of thebox, an anvil having at its top a flange which rests on the soundingboard and having a stem which passes through one of the holes in thesounding-board and is secured to the said bar, two strikers pivoted tothe said bar and projecting through two of the holes in thesounding-board and provided with hammers for striking the anvil, and anoperating-rod pivoted to the lower parts of the strikers insidethe boxand projecting through the hole in the end of the box.

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

FRANK J UHASZ.

Witnesses:

' JAMES G. SMITH, Krr'rm G. RYAN.

